“I am vice president of the United States of America. The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction– beyond that.”

The issue of same sex marriage has been one connected to turmoil among the president’s political advisers who are deciding whether or not to fully back gay marriage before the election is over.